Art
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Part of TARO subject browse terms
Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:
Stella Hope Shurtleff manuscript
Collection
Identifier: MS 0237
Overview
This collection contains the manuscript of a book by Stella Shurtleff called "Art Came to Texas: A Story of the History of Art in Texas". Also included are notes and correspondence regarding the history of art in Texas.
Dates:
1935 - 1936
Stella Sullivan artist papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0855
Overview
Stella Sullivan was a Houston based artist and teacher, of the Midcentury Modernist genre. She worked with formats such as silkscreen prints, fabric art, watercolors, and more. Materials in this collection reflect the artist and teaching career of Stella Sullivan, including examples of her work, class notes, correspondence, and more.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940 - 2016
Steve Tostenyard collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0826
Overview
This collections consists of fliers and posters collected by Steve Tostenyard.
Dates:
1970 - 1976
SwishaHouse record label collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0607
Overview
Photographs, promotional cards, posters, published interviews and music of Swisha House artists such as Paul Wall, Lil Mario, SLim Thug, Coota Bang, Michael 5000 Watts, Big Tyme, Lester Roy, Sabwarfare, Archie Lee, J Dawg and many others. Music is on audiocassette, LP album, and CD. Additionally, this collection features a large framed platinum record presented to CERCL to commemorate the sale 1 million copies of Paul Wall's The Peoples Champ album. (1 box plus framed platinum record)
Dates:
2000-2011
Thomas E. Daley papers
Collection
Identifier: UA 0334
Overview
The Daley Papers include personal documents from Daley's high school and Rice University years, a play script and original artwork. There are also photographs of Rice and of World War II infantry and intelligence units, along with some newspaper clippings and correspondence from 1946 and 1963.
Dates:
1919-1929, 1942-1952
Vera Prasilova Scott portraiture collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0497
Abstract:
Photographic prints, glass plate negatives and other equipment and supplies related to professional portraiture by Vera Prasilova Scott, mainly dating from 1926-1937 during her time in Houston close to the Rice Institute. Houston and Rice University-related subjects include the Lovett, Baker, Blaffer, Cullinan, Wiess, Hutcheson, Autrey and Sharp families.
Dates:
1926-1937
Waggaman Family collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0394
Overview
The Camille Waggaman/Waggaman Family Collection consists largely of photographs and newspaper articles but also includes some personal correspondence and memorabilia. The bulk of the material regards Camille Waggaman and focuses upon her radio career (1932-1963) and upon the years after her retirement. Regional or local historians may find these of interest since the Waggamans were among the most prominent plantation families of Louisiana.
Dates:
1841-1977, bulk 1932-63; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1963
Walter Widrig papers on the excavation of Via Gabina Villas
Collection
Identifier: MS 0079
Abstract:
This collection documents the excavation of two suburban Roman villas and a Late Antique granary-barn 14 kilometers directly east from the center of Rome along the Via Gabina, an ancient Roman road. Walter Widrig, Rice University professor emeritus, and Philip Oliver-Smith, Rice University professor emeritus, co-directed this project to shed light on the economic and social changes that took place from the Roman Republic through the Imperial era in the immediate area of Via Gabina. The...
Dates:
1975-2004; Majority of material found within 1978 - 1989
William "Bill" Camfield academic papers
Collection
Identifier: UA 0444
Overview
The collection contains class lecture notes and research materials on art, artists, and theory from Dr. Camfield's time as a professor at Rice University from the 1960s to 2000s.
Dates:
1960s-2000s
William “Bill” Camfield papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0495
Overview
The papers of art historian William Camfield include correspondence concerning Rice University Cullinan Visiting Professors, gift of Mrs. George R. Brown for sculpture for Rice University Campus, photographs and slides, newspaper clippings and brochures of Rice exhibits and sculpture. Also included is material concerning the Rice Institute for the Arts. There are also tapes of lectures by Robert Irwin, Cullinan Lecturer.
Dates:
1925-1997; Majority of material found within 1982 - 1990